Manager, Accounting and Finance
About the Company
Empower is America’s largest woman-owned media agency. We develop proactive partnerships with our clients, leaning into the mantra of "What If". We challenge the status quo and uncover incremental sources of growth through proprietary technology. We put brands in attention-grabbing environments, capturing consumers hearts, minds, and wallets. All in service of delivering results today and creating deeper longer-term consumer connections which drives our clients' business. We don’t believe winning today is enough. We believe in owning tomorrow, achieved by a mindset of Grow Fearlessly.
About the Role
As Manager, Accounting and Finance, you will play a pivotal role in the Finance department by owning a variety of daily, weekly, and monthly accounting and finance related responsibilities. The Accounting and Finance Manager reports directly to the VP Finance and will play a vital role in ensuring financial transactions, financial reporting, and various financial system admin tasks are done timely and with extreme accuracy.
Responsibilities
- Ensure aspects of daily data integrations between systems are set up and appropriately maintained so that all integration data and transactions are completed and booked accurately. Systems involved could be NetSuite, Concur, MediaOcean
- Properly book daily cash and credit card transactions and ensure those accounts are reconciled daily.
- Process system-generated entries, prepare manual journal entry accruals and adjusting entries for revenue and expenses, ensure everything is accurate and complete.
- Prepare all monthly GL Account Reconciliations
- Investigates unusual or unknown transactions and ensures proper accounting and/or corrections are completed.
- Prepare monthly financial reporting, such as Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Revenue By Client reports and provide flux analysis
- Various AR and AP tasks: book certain vendor invoices, initiate vendor payments, apply customer payments,
- Fixed Assets
- Other Accounting related tasks as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance. CPA certification not required, but preferred.
- 6+ Years experience in an accounting role with strong experience in recording daily transactions as well as month end close. Understanding of full financial statements.
- Advertising or Media agency experience preferred.
- Experience using ERP systems, preferably NetSuite.
- Experience using other financial systems such as Concur is preferable, but not mandatory.
- Strong skills in Excel and other Microsoft Office products
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
- Professionalism with sensitive information
